This present thesis discusses the risk associated to the uncertainty that is present in the process of forecasting electricity prices, as well as the aspects of uncertainty in the forecast of electrical energy loads required from an electricity distributor. The first essay deals with the risk inherent to the forecast of electricity prices, bearing in mind that the various existing models are notoriously imprecise. Therefore, we attempt to determine what the forecast risk is, given that a certain forecasting technique is used and that it will probably inaccurate. The approach used is through the modeling of forecast residues with the Extreme Value Theory, which proves itself to be satisfactorily accurate for the modeling of the distribution of residues at such extreme quantiles as from 98 per cent up to over 99,5 per cent, for different data sampling frequencies. The following next chapter shows the evaluation of the electricity load required from a distributor, first by using such models as ARMA and ARMAX, trying to evaluate their predictive efficiency. These models are known to be appropriate for short term predictions, and we show by means of Monte Carlo simulations that their extended use for long term forecasts will render useless any attempt to sophisticate such models by means of incorporating exogenous variables. This is due to the fact that since the error from such longer forecasts will be so large one way or the other, with exogenous variables or not, a simpler model will be as useful as any in terms of the error in the mean prediction. Finally, the last work discusses the possibility of nonlinear effects being present in the data generating process of electrical load demanded from an energy distributor, admitting this process being just linear. To accomplish this task, we use nonlinear auto-regressive regime switching models, which are shown to be inherently resistant to possible structural breaks in the load series data used, at the same time that they are particularly appropriated to modeling asymmetries in the data generating process. We show that even relatively simple self-excited TAR models with only two regimes, that is, not resorting to any exogenous variables, can be more appropriate than linear auto-regressive models, sporting better out-of-sample forecast results. At the same time, such models are relatively simple to calculate, not requiring any sophisticated computational means.